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Speaker Bios
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Speaker: Nancy Attebury
Program: The Children’s Publishing Industry: Where
Materials in Your
Children’s Collection Originate and How to Publish Your
Own
Nancy Attebury
has published both adult and children's fiction and
non-fiction, including a biography, Gloria Steinem:
Champion of Women's
Rights, four children’s books in the Out and
About series, and ten leveled
readers. Her credits also include a children’s newspaper
column and cable
television episodes based on the column.
Attebury’s critical essays have
appeared in the international journal for Delta Kappa
Gamma. She gives
presentations for adults and children and works as an artist-in-residence
for
Arts East in Oregon. She also reviews books for
Children’s Literature
Comprehensive Database (www.childrenslit.com)
and prepares a monthly
newspaper column for a regional symphony orchestra. Her magazine
contributions include features in Highlights for
Children, Jack and Jill,
Humpty Dumpty, Pockets, and Holidays and Seasonal
Celebrations. Her
most recent projects have been accepted by Appleseeds,
Highlights High
Five, and Calliope. Attebury received
an MA in Children's Literature from
Hollins University in 2003. |
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Speaker:
Ramirose Attebury
University of Idaho Library
Program: Web 2.0/Library 2.0: Critics, Cheerleaders,
and Practical
Applications
Ramirose
Attebury is a reference and instruction librarian at the
University
of Idaho. After earning an MLIS at the University of South
Carolina,
Rami entered the library assistantship program at Central
Washington
University. During the two year program, she worked in a
variety of library
departments including reference and instruction, government
documents,
and archives and special collections while at the same time
completing the
requirements for an MA in History. A native of Wallowa
County, Oregon,
she is happy to have found an academic library position
close to where she
was raised. |
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Speaker: Nathan E. Bender
Special Collections & Archives, University of Idaho Library
Program:
Comments
on the Patrick Gass map of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Nathan E. Bender is a Professor at the University of Idaho
Library,
serving
as Head of the Special Collections & Archives. His research
interests have
resulted in various publications on the bibliography,
history, and culture
of the American west. He lives with his family
in
Lewiston, Idaho.
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Speaker: Justin Foster
Idaho Commission for Libraries
Program:
Web 2.0 Makeover!
Justin Foster is the co-founder of Tricycle
Consulting, a Boise,
Idaho-based Brand Management Team - and the developer of the
1000 Year Brand model. He consults and speaks on branding
and
marketing trends; especially trends related to communicating
with
Gen Y. Justin teaches organizations how to apply Web 2.0,
new
media, and social networking as communication tools. In
addition
to his consulting and speaking efforts, he is a husband,
dad, and
football coach. |
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Speaker: Charlotte Fowles
Idaho Commission for Libraries
Program: LiLI-D: Text and Pictures
Charlotte Fowles is the
Electronic Resources and Collection Development
Librarian at the Idaho Commission for Libraries. She works
with LiLI-D, PDS,
and I-Docs. She
received a B.A. in History from the University of Wyoming
(1980) and
a Master of Library and Information Science from the
University
of Texas
at Austin (1999). The years in between were spent teaching
English,
American
History, and Sociology in Wyoming, Texas, and Japan. She is
presently a
doctoral student in Adult and Organizational Learning at the
University of
Idaho at Boise. |
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Shirley
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David Harrell
Heather Redding |
Speakers:
Shirley Hansen, David
Harrell, and Heather Redding
Idaho Commission for Libraries
Program:
World
Cafe
Shirley
Hansen, Librarian at the Idaho Commission for Libraries,
provides
reference and research support for staff and the library
community. She
holds an MLS from Texas Woman’s University and a BS in
Education
from the University of Idaho.
David Harrell, IT Support Tech for the
Idaho Commission for Libraries,
has worked in libraries and the library community since
1995. He holds
a BA in History and an MS in Geography from Oklahoma State
University.
Heather Redding is Assistant Librarian at Jordan Library,
Eastern Idaho
Technical College, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She
graduated with a Master of
Arts in Librarianship from the University of Denver, in
Denver, Colorado.
As a member of SPLAT Heather traveled to Seattle in November
with the
Pegasus Team to attend the 17th Pegasus Conference,
"Amplifying Our
Impact: Strategies for Unleashing the Power of
Relationship".
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Speaker:
Emilie Jacobus
Program:
Building Information Literacy Using Big 6
Research Model
Emilie Jacobus is currently a graduate
student at the University of Idaho
in the College of Education, working on her Education
Specialist degree.
She holds a masters degree from Columbia University,
Teachers College in
Curriculum and Teaching (specializing in reading and
children’s literature)
and a School Library Endorsement from the University of
North Texas.
She
has enjoyed 12 years teaching in the public schools in
Texas, the
last five
of which she worked in the elementary school library. |
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Speaker:
Frank
Jacobus
University of Idaho, Department of Architecture and Interior
Design
Programs
Program:
Evolution of the Library
Architectural Program,
from Brullee to OMA
Frank Jacobus is a new faculty member at The
University of Idaho in the
Department of Architecture and Interior Design. After
graduating from
The Cooper Union with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in
1998 Frank
moved to Fort Worth, Texas where he practiced architecture
for seven
years; becoming a licensed architect in 2004. Frank earned
a
Post-Professional Masters degree in Architecture with a
Design-Theory
focus from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. His
thesis research
at UT focused on the affect of emerging technologies and
media on the
discipline of architecture and was selected by the
architecture faculty as
the “Outstanding Masters Design Study”. While in Austin he
was an
invited member to a project titled “Resilient Foundations:
The Gulf Coast
after Katrina”, which was exhibited at the 10th
annual architecture show at
the Venice Biennale. Frank currently resides in Moscow,
Idaho with his
wife and two sons. |
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Speaker: Randy Smith
Lewiston City Library
Program:
Authority Control in Your Cataloging or Catalog for
Great Search Results For Ordinary People
Randy Smith's duties at the
Lewiston City Library include reference,
special collections, and cataloging. He is currently
privileged to be
chairman of the Bibliographic Standards Committee for the
VALNet
Consortium. He has a MLS from Dominican University. |
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Speaker: Sylva Staab
Latah County Library District Board
Program: Board Issues: Word and Image
Sylva Staab has
had 30 years of human resource management experience
including 15 + years as Human Resource Director and
consultant. She is
currently President of the Latah County
Library District Board and has
served on a number of other
volunteer boards. |
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Speaker:
Joy Steiner
Program: The Inside Story: Using Imagination for
Storytelling and
Writing
Joy Steiner tells stories of
wonder and possibility and hope. She loves to
create earth tales from the animal point of view, taking her
listeners on an
imaginary walk outdoors. Joy has produced several
storytelling CD's and
is co-author of "P is for Potato: An Idaho Alphabet" with
her husband, Stan.
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Speaker: Stan Steiner
Boise State University
Keynote: What
Teachers Expect from Librarians
Program:
Bringing People Together Through
Multicultural Images
Stan Steiner has
been immersed in children's literature since the day the
book mobile librarian, Mrs. Jacobson introduced him to
picture books.
Despite
a few brief years of distraction getting a public
education he
returned to his
love for children's literature while studying to become
an elementary teacher
and has never left the world of children's
literature
since. For the past fifteen
years he has been teaching
children's and young adult
literature at Boise State
University,
publishing numerous articles integrating literature across the
curriculum areas, writing children's book review columns, authoring
a few
books including a children's book with his award winning
storytelling wife
and continuing to work on several more book
manuscripts
waiting to be
accepted for publication.
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Speaker:
Heather Stout
Lewiston City Library
Program: Catch the Summer Reading Bug
Heather received her BA from San Francisco State University
and her
MLS from University of Arizona. She has been a Librarian
for over
16 years working in both School and Academic Libraries. Her
public
library career began in the spring of 2000, with the
Lewiston City Library.
Except for a short time as an academic cataloger, Heather’s
focus has
always been on childrens’ and young adult library services.
She is
currently the Community/Youth Services Librarian for the
City of
Lewiston.
Heather lives with her husband on a farm where she enjoys
reading,
gardening, photography and scrapbooking. Heather has
two
daughters
both enrolled at the University of Idaho. |
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Speaker: Michael A. Tarabulski
Archivist of the International Jazz Collections
in Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho
Program:
Pictures and Conversations: A Random Walk through
Sequential
Art, or, The Graphic Novel Considered
Michael
Augustine Daniel Tarabulski is the alter ego of !Pmiklh
G’tdn’tblskyx,
who was
one of several infants rocketed to Earth when the distant
planet
Melvildui was decimated
by The Order, an intergalactic consortium of
information
management consultants. Landing
in the African jungle, he was
raised by a species of ape
unknown to science, captured by pirates, sold to
gypsies, pursued by Nazis, rescued by an
elite force of the U.S. Army,
baptized and confirmed by Catholics, adopted by a reclusive
billionaire,
trained in jiu-jitsu, educated in Eastern mysticism (including lessons in
rendering oneself invisible), and
schooled with the best minds of his
generation before they
were destroyed by madness.
Dedicated to fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Earthly
Way, always
against The Order,
by day he masquerades as the wild-mannered archivist
of the
International Jazz Collections
in Special Collections and Archives
at the University of
Idaho. When not engaged in
writing metadata—and
he never met a data he didn’t like,
even if the data didn’t always
like him
back--he helps his human wife, Sheila, raise two
alien children. His hobbies
are
looking for a cure for invisibility and practicing becoming
unstuck in time. |
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Speaker:
Amy Thompson
University of Idaho Library
Program: Basic
Book Repair
Amy Thompson has
been the Library Bindery Tech for the University
of IdahoLibrary since June 2005. She was a student worker for
circulation for three
years before that. She has a Master’s degree
in Architecture from the
University of Idaho. |
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